Community Outreach Project
The Inspiration
Project CPR was imagined from our first hand experience with families in Accident and Emergency losing loved ones to cardiac arrest.
There is a gap in the understanding of cardiac arrest within our general public. Our dream is to educate and empower families to participate in the outcome of their loved ones emergency care.
The Course
We grew our community program and have served numerous communities. We provide a training course free to the public where we teach the basics of Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) use.
Our program is funded solely by volunteers and donations. We will be asking a small fee from councils to aid in course materials costs.
West Wittering Beach: Brockwood Park School
While training the West Wittering Beach Lifeguards we encountered a school group who were willing to learn CPR and act as a bystander team!
Thank you to Mr. Andrew Turner who allowed and encouraged his students to learn this valuable life skill on a beach day out!
Help us teach more community programs.
All contributions will be used towards our free community programs and will help us to hold more classes in your communities. Our first goal is to reach the entire community of Chichester, UK. We hope to educate this community on how to perform CPR and use an AED.
Currently 87% of cardiac arrests happen at home or work. Our survival rate is currently 10% nationally.
It has been proven that when bystanders and families have an increased understanding of cardiac arrest and resuscitation, our out of hospital cardiac arrest survival rates improve upwards of 60%.
Please help us to do better!
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Westhampnett Parish Council has also purchased a new defibrillator for their community through Project CPR.
This fully automatic IPAD SP1 lives in an insulated cabinet in the Westerton bus shelter.
You can find this defibrillator registered on the Circuit.
We have held multiple sessions at the Westhampnett Community Hall educating over 40 individuals of all ages, how to perform CPR and how to use an AED.
Every participant has said they felt much more confident and would attempt to resuscitate someone if they encountered a cardiac arrest!
Westhampnett Parish Council
Visit our defibrillators page to learn how to become an AED Guardian…
Busy Bee’s Nursery Chichester
Project CPR has provided a free training update for the educators at Busy Bee’s Chichester surrounding choking, paediatric and adult basic life support (CPR/AED) and correct use of the Life Vac Anti-Choking Device. They have been equipped with a Life Vac for their centre and were keen to train their staff in it’s use!
Tell us about your community…
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+44 7849 215547
West Wittering, Chichester UK PO20 8AP
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Winter’s Story
I had just given birth to our beautiful baby girl, Winter. She was only 13 days old when she suffered a severe airway obstruction. The doctors believed it was remnants from her lungs due to being born via caesarean section. My partner called an ambulance while I began using back slaps and tried to clear her airway. She couldn’t breathe, and I could see the panic on her face. As she continued to turn purple and blue, struggling to move any air, I feared the worst.
I brought her outdoors onto the front lawn so that the ambulance would see us immediately. I had to move on to rescue breathing because nothing was coming out of her airway. I knew it was mucus, as her mouth was filling with foam and saliva. If I couldn’t get it out, I needed to try to push it past her trachea and into her oesophagus in hopes that she could take in at least one breath.
Two, three, four times I tried to push air into her lungs without any success. Her eyes started to bulge with fear, and her face and body were now very blue. I yelled out to my partner that I needed suction. He ran into the kitchen to get our LifeVac Anti-Choking Device, but I decided we didn’t have the time to wait. I decided to reverse my rescue breaths and try to suck the obstruction out of her mouth and nose.
The universe was kind, and the suction worked. I managed to clear her airway enough for her to breathe, and she began to cry. The sound of her cry was music to my ears as I realized that we had almost lost her. I had to continue to give her back slaps from time to time and held her in a recovery position, clearing her airway every few minutes.
The ambulance finally arrived with a basic tech crew in tow. They didn’t have any paediatric equipment on board or any experience in paediatric or neonatal care. It had taken them 65 minutes to respond to our call. Winter had been blue for 40 full minutes.
We spent a week in the hospital where Winter needed frequent suctioning, struggled to eat, and had to be monitored at all times.
I thank the universe every single day that I am trained as a Critical Care Paramedic, a Resuscitation Practitioner, and a Paediatric Specialist. My partner and I have reflected many times that if it had been a family without such training, Winter wouldn’t be alive today.
It is because of this that I want to empower all families to care for their loved ones. We can only hope that no one ever has to experience the trauma that we have, and if they do, that they may be prepared to help their loved ones.
